Science fiction fans: how "alien" is too alien to sleep with?

[Skald the Rhymer]

Filmed science fiction and fantasy is, for obvious reasons, replete with non-human characters played by human actors. Sometimes only a nominal effort is made to make the actor look other than human; otherwise quite a bit of work goes into it.

Which brings me to the thread question. In terms of sexual attractiveness, what sf aliens are too alien for you? Contrariwse, who is made positively yummy by their minor differences?

[Love Rhombus]

Too alien? Do I have to strap on an adapter and can I feel my hands afterwards? No? Then I'd Kirk 'em.

[photopat]

It all depends on how big her boobs are (well, okay, not really. But it'd be nice if she had 'em) and if, in fact, she qualifies as a her. Beyond that, fur wouldn't be out of the question, provided she had good grooming skills. I draw the line at tentacles and stingers.

[Bosstone]

Hey, G'kar was hot for a reptile dude.

I'd have to stick with mostly humanoid. The details don't matter, as long as they're reasonably similar to humans in the important waysT&A. Tentacles are out.

[AuntiePam]

No slime, melting, or puddling. Nothing "chitinous" either -- grasshoppers freak me out.

Scales would be fine. I've petted snakes and like the way they feel.

[WhyNot]

Considering that I've slept with humans I find rather unattractive, and fallen in love with them to boot, I'm not sure I could rule anything out. Short of personal damage, I suppose.

[Skald the Rhymer]

I'm rather surprised that no one's rejected Klingons out of hand. That's some trans-species lovemaking that could be a might dangerous .

[elfkin477]

I'm not adverse to shape shifters (say he might sometimes appear as a black dog*, or really be a crow) that have human forms too but that's about as exotic as I'm willing to go.





*not a ref. to Harry Potter. Sirius Black was human.

[Miller]

Generally mammaliam, preferably humanoid, but a lot would depend on the individual alien.

[Kamino Neko]

Originally Posted by Bosstone

Tentacles are out.

Oh, that's not RIGHT!

A generally humanoid form, including compatible sexual organs is a must, beyond that...

Odd coloured skin, fine.
Animalistic traits - fur, scales, claws, tails, muzzles, fangs, wings, pointed ears - all good. Bonuses, even. A beak might throw me, though.
Extra limbs - fine (see above). Even tentacles. >_>

[silenus]

D'lenn - do-able

M'ress - do-able

Horta - not do-able

[kellner]

Originally Posted by AuntiePam

Nothing "chitinous" either -- grasshoppers freak me out.

kell. I'm not entirely sure that I agree. ner.

[jayjay]

Centauri are out (they fall under the tentacle rule). Which is a shame because Vir was kind of cute.

Pak'ma'ra are out because...well, they smell like their food. Which is usually long dead before they get to it. Ew. And they fall under the tentacle rule, also.

[Elysium]

The khepri race in Perdido Street Station was a bit too alien for me. I can understand how Issac loved Lin, but his descriptions of her bug face and stuff was a bit creepy during the love-making scenes.

I guess bug-heads are too alien for me.

Also anything too... furry-ish would creep me out. I guess I'm a bit xenophobic.

[Skald the Rhymer]

Originally Posted by Elysium

The khepri race in Perdido Street Station was a bit too alien for me. I can understand how Issac loved Lin, but his descriptions of her bug face and stuff was a bit creepy during the love-making scenes.

I guess bug-heads are too alien for me.

Also anything too... furry-ish would creep me out. I guess I'm a bit xenophobic.

So no Cheetara?

[Larry Mudd]

I likes me some aliens that are based on more-or-less ideal human female forms with one or two exotic accessories. (No prob with a Twi'lek dancer. No sir.)

Moties don't hold a lot of appeal. Asymmetric or covered in dense fur? No thanks.

[Baldwin]

While I'm thinking about the OP, let me be pedantic in the service of fighting ignorance (returning the favor that many on this board have done for me).

Originally Posted by Skald the Rhymer

I'm rather surprised that no one's rejected Klingons out of hand. That's some trans-species lovemaking that could be a might dangerous .

A mite dangerous.

Originally Posted by elfkin477

I'm not adverse to shape shifters . . . .

You're not averse.

Okay; short of anything that will cause me permanent physical or psychological damage, the opportunity to nail an alien would be too important to pass up. Game on. (Unless I'm just not into her/it.)

[levdrakon]

Hate to say it, but it would have to look basically human male. I can handle skin colors, scales, lumps & bumps here and there, maybe the odd tail, or tentacle, or horns, but it's got to look human male-ish.

Unless we're doing one of those mind-meld sex things. I hear they're pretty hot.

[Algher]

1) Is there a comfortable Slot B for my Tab A to insert into? That is the first question I would have.
2) After that, it depends on the cuddle factor - can I wrap my arms around them and hold them without hurting myself?

Give me those two, and I am well on the way to Kirking them (I LOVE that term Love Rhombus!)

[Skald the Rhymer]

Originally Posted by Baldwin

While I'm thinking about the OP, let me be pedantic in the service of fighting ignorance (returning the favor that many on this board have done for me).

A mite dangerous.

Thank you for the correction; I quite appreciate it. Unfortunately my vengeance engine was on "automatic" when you made it, so several dozen genetically engineered, winged, flame-breathing, et cetera howler monkeys have been dispatched to your location. You might want to head to the basement.

[Elysium]

Originally Posted by Skald the Rhymer

So no Cheetara?

Well...she's not THAT alien!

Haha. I guess too many alien traits all together might push it over the top. Wings would be okay, and maybe tail or scales or something. But a non-human face just pushes it into weird territory.

[cmyk]

Mmm, I totally bang this bitch.

[Alistair McCello]

Before reading this thread I probably would have called myself a science fiction fan, but I am not sure that I am allowed anymore as I honestly never considered this question. The only thing that I really have to contribute (besides the shame of my lack of devotion to the genre) is that it the first thing I though of when seeing the thread title was this comic.

[kunilou]

Originally Posted by elfkin477

I'm not adverse to shape shifters (say he might sometimes appear as a black dog*, or really be a crow) that have human forms too but that's about as exotic as I'm willing to go.

Fool! Don't you know after (sometimes even during) sex a shapeshifter will inevitably change back to alien form and kill you!

[elfkin477]

Originally Posted by Baldwin

While I'm thinking about the OP, let me be pedantic in the service of fighting ignorance (returning the favor that many on this board have done for me).

A mite dangerous.


You're not averse.

Funny, I don't think pedantic is the word you should have picked, either

[Lumpy]

Quite a bit of furry art is devoted to variations on the centauroid body plan: four legs supporting a primary torso, then a secondary torso with arms and head. The name of one such fictional species, the Chakat, has become so widely adopted as to now be nearly synonymous with the felinoid versions. Would anyone consider going that far?

[Apollyon]

Originally Posted by AuntiePam

No slime, melting, or puddling.

I could go with a little slime... it'd depend what it tasted like. Lime jello would be nice. Tentacles are a maybe... the Thermians were just such nice "people".

I agree with Miller that it would largely depend on the individual alien.. but that said... scarab beetle heads would be just too damn freaky no matter how good her personality was. *shudder*

[Lute Skywatcher]

Originally Posted by AuntiePam

No slime, melting, or puddling. Nothing "chitinous" either

Yep, although I'd make an exception for the Malmooth.

[OtakuLoki]

I'd be less concerned about form than I would want to know about mating habits/rituals. I do not want to be stuck in the position of playing the male for a preying mantis courtship.

[mlees]

Them green Orion slave woman were among the first adolecent boyhood phantasies.

But I read some sci-fi book were the human male gets on an alien built eco-system ship, and falls for a centaur type female, and ends up banging her. Umm... no thanks. I have no bestiality hunger within me.

[Odesio]

Originally Posted by cmyk

Mmm, I totally bang this bitch.

She gives good head.


Marc

[LiveOnAPlane]

Originally Posted by silenus

...
Horta - not do-able

Umm...Horta. Doesn't talk, right? Stone cold, yes? And made out of rock?

I think I dated one or two of these...

[Apollyon]

Originally Posted by mlees

...sci-fi book were the human male...falls for a centaur type female, and ends up banging her. Umm... no thanks. I have no bestiality hunger within me.

Assuming the "centaur type female" is sentient I'm pretty sure that "bestiality" isn't the appropriate description.... "miscegenation" I might buy, but bestiality suggests one partner is a lower order animal.

[jayjay]

Originally Posted by mlees

But I read some sci-fi book were the human male gets on an alien built eco-system ship, and falls for a centaur type female, and ends up banging her. Umm... no thanks. I have no bestiality hunger within me.

That sounds like John Varley's Titan. The centaur types were called Titanides, their clans were set up on the order of the Modes of medieval music, and they didn't even come CLOSE to male/female...there was some kind of complex interplay between something like three or four different genders, involving egg swapping or something like that.

Or possibly Jack L. Chalker's Well of Souls series.

[Koxinga]

Originally Posted by Larry Mudd

Asymmetric or covered in dense fur? No thanks.

So radial symmetry is OK then?

[Apollyon]

Originally Posted by Koxinga

So radial symmetry is OK then?

So long as she's a cute xeno-echinoderm.

[devilsknew]

I always wanted to rock Cassandra 's world (Leslie Bevis).. ever lovin' Newcummer Alien Sex.

Alen Nation had some hot Slags.

[WotNot]

Originally Posted by kellner

kell. I'm not entirely sure that I agree. ner.

Wot. She was cute. Not.

[At which point I read what I have written and realise that my screen name is working against me here.]

On that topic, though: despite the mild controversy when Captain Jack was introduced, it always seemed to me that he was nothing more than an obvious extrapolation from Captain Kirk. After all, anyone who is willing and able to shag an alien is hardly likely to turn his nose up at half the members of his own species, is he?

So all that slash fiction is probably right on the money.

[freekalette]

It depends on the alien. (I've mentioned before that I have a love for tentacles.)

If we're talking the Doctor...he could regenerate into a GIANT FREAKING SIVLERFISH and I'd still do him. His current dreamy looks are just an added bonus on top of - heh, no pun intended there - a wonderful personality and intellect.

As for the aforementioned Captain Jack, he does nothing for me. Cute, check. Open minded, check. Personality, check. Intellect........ Nope; he acts like a teenager. Feels like jailbait. Can't do it. He can hold the camera for the Doctor and me though!

[Silver Tyger]

No bugs or squid-faced people. Otherwise, I'm pretty open.

Wings? Sure. Fur? Hell yeah. Tentacles? You betcha! Extra limbs? Why not? But there needs to be a face I can relate to.

[mlees]

Originally Posted by jayjay

That sounds like John Varley's Titan. The centaur types were called Titanides, their clans were set up on the order of the Modes of medieval music, and they didn't even come CLOSE to male/female...there was some kind of complex interplay between something like three or four different genders, involving egg swapping or something like that.

Or possibly Jack L. Chalker's Well of Souls series.

Thanks. I read both of those books back in the 70's, so my memory is a bit hazy, and I think it might be Titan, though I'm not positive.

The human male hero fell in love with his centaur traveling companion. He engaged in sex with her-it, mainly with the centaur's upright front torso section. that didn't freak me out too much. Eventually, though, she-it talked him into doing it with her hind quarters, as she-it drew pleasure from that area, as well, which is were I went "EEeeew!".

[Lanzy]

Think I'd need a bit of alien booze first.

[jayjay]

Originally Posted by mlees

Thanks. I read both of those books back in the 70's, so my memory is a bit hazy, and I think it might be Titan, though I'm not positive.

The human male hero fell in love with his centaur traveling companion. He engaged in sex with her-it, mainly with the centaur's upright front torso section. that didn't freak me out too much. Eventually, though, she-it talked him into doing it with her hind quarters, as she-it drew pleasure from that area, as well, which is were I went "EEeeew!".

Yeah, I think that was Titan. The Titanides have two sets of genitals, front and back, IIRC. Which is why their reproduction's so darned complicated...I think it's mix & match, at that...a single Titanide can be male in front and female in back or vice versa, as well as having self-matching genitalia.

[GargoyleWB]

SciFi books never mention smell. Smell is probably the hugest sensory turn on/off for me.

Any alien that smells like cinnamon would get a come hither wink.

[jayjay]

Originally Posted by GargoyleWB

Any alien that smells like cinnamon would get a come hither wink.

I'm imagining Jabba the Hutt spritzing with Eau de Sticky-bun and going looking for you...

[GargoyleWB]

Is that a Cinnabon clutched in your chitonous tentacle, or are you just happy to see me?

[Hockey Monkey]

Most Star Wars aliens are out.

Most Star Trek aliens are in.

The alien from Alien is right out.

[Tristan]

Rishathra?

Sure, why not?

[CalMeacham]

Despite what goes on in Star Trek, most alien sex probably wouldn't even be recognizable as such, or would be as different from ours as Plant sex, or jellyfish sex. As Larry Niven wrote in "Man of Steel; Woman of Kleenex" regarding Superman getting it on with LL, "He could as easily mate with an ear of corn."



Larry Niven's rishathra is understandable, since the aliens really are humanoid, and of the same basic stock. For others, though, it doesn't seem likely. Although there have been attempts:


1.) Norman Spinrad wrote a short story (don't recall the title -- it's in the collection The Last Hurrah of the Golden Horde) in which there's a planet with a species that uses some sort of telepathy to find out what sort of mate a creature is looking for, and forms itself into that ideal. It's sort of cuckoo-like survival strategy, where you displace the natural females. The same idea (sorta) was used in the movie Species and its sequels.

2.) Philip Jose Farmer came up with an interesting dodge in The Lovers. The alien female creature looks like a human female and can go through the actions of sex, but of course we're not interfertile with them. Nevertheless, the sex act stimulates their reproduction mechanisms. It's high;y unbelievable, but a good read. I don't recall how these were supposed to habve developed.

3.) another Farmer story, "Mother", features a huge immobile creature that has a large internal cavity where it can trap things. It traps a human. There's a "reproduction spot" which, when attacked, is stimulated to begin reproduction. This has to be the most complete "return-to-the-womb" story ever written.

[Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor]

Anything stranger than M'Ress is...mostly...out.